tomas789 14 hours ago | next |

Claiming that the hardware is capable of running Apple Intelligence just because it can show up a settings and missleading at best and a lie at worst.

appendix-rock 5 hours ago | prev | next |

I wish I could downvote this drivel into the ground. The author is clearly working backwards from their utter grumpiness toward Apple. I’d love to see this exchanged with a ‘source’ that’s not a wannabe tech journalist poorly editorialising. We know that LLM inference chews resources, and it’s a completely common and justifiable call by Apple to limit the hardware that ‘supports’ it.

I’m genuinely not sure what’d make people like this actually happy. These sorts of outrage merchants are so tiring.

glial 16 hours ago | prev | next |

> Shame on you Apple.

This is just annoying. It's not clear that Apple Intelligence runs well on older phones. Good LLM are notoriously slow on non-optimized hardware.

hnthr_w_y 13 hours ago | root | parent | next |

It's not just LLMs. Older phones also have the 'remove object' feature on the Photos app disabled, and they also won't receive the OpenAI integration either.

Locally running LLM is one thing. An iPhone 14 is perfectly capable of removing an object and talking to ChatGPT. Yet these are disabled on 14 and earlier phones.

anonzzzies 14 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next |

Many people like to decide for themselves I believe; Apple can warn that it will run badly and burn through your battery faster, but if the user still wants it, they should be able to switch it on no?

throwaway48540 13 hours ago | root | parent | next |

Many people like to decide for themselves and then trash the product/company when it doesn't work - especially in the Apple ecosystem where they sort of guarantee the user experience will be good. While I also like to decide for myself, I understand why Apple would decide for themselves they don't want to risk that.

anonzzzies 8 hours ago | root | parent |

Yeah, I see that; it's like when people order Szechuan hotpot ultra hot and then complain it was too hot. But as I paid like 1500 euros for the device, I want the choice. They don't have to make it easy, it just has to be possible if I really want. In my opinion.

gregoriol 11 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next |

Most users don't understand those details: how many really understand all those authorisation popups? If you give too much choice to most users, they'll find it difficult to navigate. There should be an "expert" setting for those options, hiding them from the standard display.

quitit 11 hours ago | prev |

>Enable Apple Intelligence on devices reported as far back as the iPhone 12.

>This is rather scandalous of Apple. They gate kept Apple Intelligence on last year’s premium iPhone 15 Pro line and made it a big reason to upgrade to the iPhone 16, claiming the new hardware was necessary to run the AI. However, that now seems incorrect at best and an outright lie at worst.

> ... Shame on you Apple. Let’s see if this story picks up steam.

They spent more time building a strawman instead of checking their dubious claims.

Since it's clear I've looked into this more deeply than George Patterson Sibble, you can read the experiences of people testing this below:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sideloaded/comments/1fjlzrq/has_any...

tl,dr: Just the siri UI, basically nothing works.

As for George Patterson Sibble: get a job.